This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgment' is- A) Anthony Mascarenhas. B) Amartya Sen. C) Kuldip Nayer. D) Nelson Mandela. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kuldip Nayer. 2. What is kenning? A) A sort of simile. B) A sort of irony. C) A sort of metaphor. D) A sort of euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sort of metaphor. 3. What is sonnet? A) A prose of special nature. B) A sacred poem of reputed poet. C) A poem of fourteen lines. D) A criticism of a poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poem of fourteen lines. 4. Age of Johnson is also known as- A) Age of Criticism. B) Age of Love. C) Age of Sensibility. D) Age of Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age of Sensibility. 5. He was not a Renaissance writer. A) William Shakespeare. B) Sir Philip Sidney. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Sir Thomas Malory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Thomas Malory. 6. What is the height of the longest Lilliputian? A) 5 feet. B) 2 feet. C) About the size of Gulliver's middle finger. D) 7 Metres. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About the size of Gulliver's middle finger. 7. Who is the writer of the book 'A Passage to India'? A) E. M. Forster. B) Charles Dickens. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) E. M. Forster. 8. Who is the father of English Novel? A) Shakespeare. B) Henry Fielding. C) G.B. Shaw. D) R. L. Stevenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Fielding. 9. Who is the author of 'The Rape of Bangladesh'? A) Anthony Mascarenhas. B) Mathew Arnold. C) G. B. Shaw. D) Alexander Dumas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthony Mascarenhas. 10. When was Edmund Spenser born? -When did Edmund Spenser die? A) 1554-1599. B) 1552-1600. C) 1552-1599. D) 1552-1598. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1552-1599. 11. Wordsworth believes that the task of the poet is A) To transform the commonplace into the extraordinary. B) To present common situations and everyday life. C) To give extraordinary powers to common things and situations. D) To recollect in tranquility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To transform the commonplace into the extraordinary. 12. 'The Medal' by John Dryden is a/an- A) Play. B) Satire. C) Prose. D) Translation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire. 13. Which one of the following is the first long poem in English? A) Beowulf. B) Dream of the Road. C) The Seafarer. D) The Wanderer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 14. The Chorus in T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" , consist of A) The women of Canterbury. B) The priests of Canterbury. C) The men of Canterbury. D) The servants of Thomas Becket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The women of Canterbury. 15. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of: A) Wordsworth. B) Pope. C) Swift. D) Thomson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pope. 16. What did Milton learn from the caramel maker in Denver, Colorado? A) How to prepare candies with jelly. B) How to charge people for candy to make money. C) How to blend ingredients. D) How to use fresh milk in making chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How to use fresh milk in making chocolate. 17. Shakespeare is known mostly for his- A) Poetry. B) An autobiography. C) A diary. D) Plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plays. 18. "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty" is stated by- A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Jane Austine. D) Charles Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 19. 'Persona' is A) The actor in a play. B) The plural of Person. C) A projection of the poet into another person. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The actor in a play. 20. Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy'? A) John Lyly. B) Thomas Kyd. C) Robert Green. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Kyd. Next →Related QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 9Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 10Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books